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Some of my favorite thumbnails from chapter 1 of my comic

SOTR Spoilers Ahead:

I've seen a couple of posts now about people's suspicion over The Capitol being able to find a girl that could replace Louella as fast as they did, especially after finding out Lou Lou's from District 11

But I'm gonna be honest, when I found out she was from District 11, it actually put a lot of the pieces together for me. My mind immediately went to Seeder, the D11 female victor in Catching Fire

If its been a second since you've read CF here's her description:

She looks like she could be from the seam. I wouldn't be surprised if Seeder's description is the reason SC chose D11 for Lou Lou tbh.

Also for making their faces match, I've always just kinda assumed fast fashion cosmetic surgery is common place for The Capitol so there's probably plenty of surgeons able to do the job quickly and well enough to pass her off as Louella to anyone who didn't know her.

And it’s not like they did a particularly clean job at it either. Their “solution” was so incredibly slapped together and messy (And that’s HORRIFIC because we’re talking about a CHILD). She’s hooked up to drugs 24/7, which could easily be ripped out, manipulated, etc. and also make her barely able to function and causes more problems for the Capitol than not. One thing that’s brought up over and over in sotr is the Capitol’s gross incompetence, but because of they’re good at propaganda, you wouldn’t realize it. Lou Lou’s another example of that

(Also....Seeder's in her 60s in CF...meaning she would have been a victor and, I dunno, old enough to have a 13 year old by the 50th Hunger Games...I'M NOT SAYING SHE'S LOU LOU'S MOM I'm just saying the timeline lines up weirdly well)

Finnick doodles this time

can i just say how OBSESSED i am with your art like omg it’s so good 💕💕💕💕💕💕

Thank you so much!!! 😭😭🥰🥰🥰

Lazy Summer Morning

Yeah! I feel the the berries tie them all together in a way that's not talked about as much as I wish it was.

Also YES! His arm was intentional for that exact reason! I'm so happy all the little details I put in are coming through!!

Family Portrait

The only family he has.

Mini Rant about Peeta's nightmares:

When he explains his nightmare to Katniss, he tells her they're mostly about her and he's okay when he knows she's safe. I don't believe him. Based on his paintings, I think his nightmares are a lot more often like hers than he lets on But Katniss completely bases her self worth on how much she can provide for others. SO I think Peeta tells one lie in the moment to tell the bigger truth: Her existence is enough.

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

Did you draw that photo of book accurate Katniss, Peeta, and haymitch? If you did, I really love the way you illustrated their burn scars. I’m a burn survivor and I’ve never been burn scars be illustrated so beautifully. Thank you for that

I (probably) am the one that drew it! You have no idea how happy I am to hear that!! 😭

A character of a story of mine is also a burn survivor and I’ve tried my best to do all the research to get it right, so that means a lot to know!! 🩷🩷🩷

he's one of those big dogs that thinks he's a lap dog